Clive: 1004 books

«Como siempre, Cussler nos deja mordiéndonos las uñas.» Publishers Weekly Se trata del noveno título de la saga «los archivos Oregon”, un clásico del thriller marítimo. Su autor es uno de los grandes expertos mundiales en recuperación de barcos naufragados. Juan Cabrillo ha fracasado en...

Nine tales await you in this new collection of horror and suspense from Clive Carpenter. "La Piedra Maya" - A stone from an ancient Mayan temple has a deadly surprise in store for the woman who stole it. "Scritching" - A camper is awakened when his tent is invaded...

In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid...

Jim Wormold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter’s increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service asks him to become their ‘man in Havana’ he can’t afford to say no. There’s just one problem…he...

Popular TV ghosthunter, Clive Kristen, takes the reader in search of grueseome events across the border in Scotland. The stories are woven into their historical context and take the reader to spooktacular places. From grisly murders to wronged women to unfinished business, south-east Scotland has a spook for the story.

The story “Justice” is set during the eighties when opposition to the status quo was becoming more and more intense. People in the countryside had to choose between supporting the traditionalists or the activists. Sometimes, members of one family chose different sides. “The Wisdom of Solomon”...

This book comprises two collections of short stories. The first is a medley ranging from Sci Fi to murder and from humor to satire. The second half is a continuation of the series: “Big Companies for Dummies” stories which are set in the corporate world. “String Theory” is a science fiction...

“The Kreutzer Sonata” is set against a background of the Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Act promulgated during the Apartheid years. A young black man by the name of Lucky takes a job in a run-down hotel in Johannesburg. The owner is an Austrian who is more interested in playing his trumpet...

In “A Man Called Che”, an elderly Spanish gentleman turns up at a lawyer’s office in Tampa, Florida claiming to be Che Guevara, the communist revolutionary. Is he who he says he is? And, what does he want from the lawyers? In the second story “We have a Problem”. The truth about the Apollo...

This collection of thirteen short stories has diamonds as the common theme. The title is taken from the song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” made famous by Marilyn Munro in the film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. Most of the stories are light and humorous. In the first story, an idealistic...

“The Naturalist” is a dramatization of the first large battle in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It is based on an anecdote about a British trooper catching butterflies while waiting for the battle to begin. “The Tramp” is set during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899. An isolated farm in the Orange Free...

The setting of these stories is Paddafontein (Frog Fountain in English, pronounced ‘pudda fonteyn’) a remote village in the semi-desert Karoo district of Southern Africa. The inhabitants could be described as old-fashioned, quaint and conservative and at times more than a little strange. The sketches...

In this deracinated age appears a miraculous epic that pays homage to Dante and Camus. “Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time,” writes Clive James in his epic poem,...

This bawdy tale weaves multiple subplots around Eddie and Justin's encounter with the celestial forces of good and evil. TRIP climaxes in an out-of-this-world confrontation that unlocks the secrets of creation philosophers, physicists, theologians and cooks have failed to do: How did we get here, where do we go after we die and the recipe for Coq O'Noodle Do